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During a ceremony at the Amos Funk Farm Market, MHlersvitle, Governor
Dick Thornburgh signed House Bill 1176 changing inheritance tax laws to en
courage continued use of farmland for agricultural purposes. Attending the
services were: left to right, Rep. Joseph Pitts, Gov. Thornburgh, and Sen. Rich
ard A. Snyder. Back row; Secretary of Agriculture, Penrose Hallowell, Rep. Noah
Wenger, Rep. Gibson Armstrong and Amos Funk.
Full sisters by Elevation top
harvest sale at $29,000 each
lANCASTER - Two full
sisters by Elevation,
reported to be the highest
record excellent pair ever
sold at public sale, topped
the Golden Harvest Sale at
the Guernsey Pavilion
Thursday at $29,000 each.
Anchor and Hope
Elevation Sarah, EX-92, and
Anchor and Hope Elevation
Sunny, 2E-91, were brought
into the ring together and
auctioned as a choice or
both.
Described as the “Now
Generation” of the Holstein
breed, they were purchased
by Weir Stewart,
Hillsdale,N Y They were
consigned by Anchor and
Hope Farm, Inc., and
Charles McLaughlin, Port
Deposit and Taneytown, Md.
As a five-year-old, Sarah
has a 305-day projection of
25,700 lbs of milk and 1074 of
butterfat Sunny, in 360 days,
has a production record as a
Farm Show director resigns
HARRISBURG - Horace
Mann was appointed Friday
by Secretary of Agriculture
Penrose Hallowell to serve
as acting director of Farm
Show m the wake of the
resignation of Pennsylvania
State Farm Products Show
Director, Hugh Coffman.
Coffman resigned from the
$29,600 a year post less than
°ne month before the
complex’s biggest event of
the year. Farm Show. His
resignation becomes ef
fective Tuesday.
Mann had previously
served as director from 1964-
1971. He will serve as tem
porary replacement for
six-year-old of 34,700 lbs. of
milk and 1439 butterfat at
4.15 test. A third full sister
has 927 lbs. of fat in 10
months and is expected to be
the third to top the 1,000-lb.
mark.
The sisters were All-Ohio
Produce of Dam in 1979 and
1980. Sarah is bred to Valiant
and Sunny to Chief. Neither
has been flushed.
Opening the sale, the
sisters’ bidding started at
$lO,OOO and quickly moved to
$21,000. Then more slowly,
but still in $l,OOO jumps, bids
rose to the top offer of
$29,000
The sale, attended by a
standing-room-only crowd in
the pavilion, could have been
billed as an “Elevation
Event ” In all, 23 of his
daughters and a son, plus 10
units of semen, went across
the auction block.
The largest single con
signor in the Golden Harvest
Sale and the following
Coffman.
“This will be a temporary
appointment until after
Farm Show. A permanent
director will be appointed at
a later date,’’ Hallowell said.
After serving as Farm
Show director since May of
1979, Coffman will assume
the position of ad
ministrative assistant to
Congressman James Coyne
of the Bth district, Bucks
County.
“Hugh has done an ex
cellent job of reorganizing
Farm Show management
and promoting many
facilities which are available
to the public at the Farm
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 13,1980
Garden Spot Sale was Floyd
M. Nolt, New Holland, with
23 head, 12 cows and 11
heifers.
Altogether, 147 head, in
cluding 11 bulls, were listed
in the catalog.
Among other top leading
sellers in the sales:
Andfar Astronaut Boun
tiful, VG-87, with a 365-day
production record of 15,087
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DfflA sees butterfat record set
BY CURT HAULER
SMOKETOWN - A county
record of 771 pounds but
terfat established by the 44.6
cows m the Nelson H.
Wenger herd was heralded
at the annual meeting of the
Lancaster County Dairy
Show complex,” Hallowell
said.
“His tenure has seen an
increase in the usage and
value of the complex. While
it is a disappointment to lose
an administrator like Coff
man, I am pleased for him in
taking on additional
responsibilities as top aide to
Congressman Coyne.”
Concerning his year and a
half as Farm Show director
Coffman remarked, “The
experience has been en
joyable and unique. My only
regret is that I vyon’t be
working for Penrose
Hallowell anymore. c
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BY DEBBIE KOONTZ
MILLERSVILLE -
“Signing this bill will mark
another step forward in the
agricultural community to
preserving the family
farm,” Gov Dick Thorn
burgh said Wednesday as he
signed House Bill 1176 in a
ceremony at the farm of
Amos Funk, R 1 Millersville.
This legislation changes
At Pa. Egg Council
Feathers ruffled
over spent hens
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
LANCASTER - Spent
hens and specifically how
they may be marketed
cooperatively in file Com
monwealth in the future was
a topic of lively discussion at
a meeting of the Penn
sylvania Egg Council on
Wednesday at the Host
Corral.
What was listed on the
agenda as a discussion of
“Improving Spent Hen
Marketing” turned into a
sometimes lively exchange
between PACMA officials of
the Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association, which has been
selling the hens through the
FACTS marketing affiliate
organization in
Massachusetts, and the Fowl
Red Rose annual meeting
Herd Improvement
Association held Tuesday
afternoon.
The R 6 Manheim herd of
home-bred Registered
Holstems had a 4.1 percent
test on 18,599 pounds milk.
Details on Wenger’s
management program can
be found on page B-2.
Top herd for milk was
owned by Benuel Z. Lapp, R 2
New Holland. Lapp’s 65 cows
produced 20,435 pounds milk
on three tunes a day
milking.
The Lapp herd of
Registered Holstems
averaged 713 pounds but
terfat. Seventeen percent of
the herd consists of pur
chased cows.
Also producing over 20,000
pounds was the Paul H.
Martin herd of Registered
Holstems. His 50 milkers
made 20,049 pounds milk and
finished second in the overall
butterf at production list with
734 pounds production.
Martin farms at R 1
Ephrata.
In the colored breeds.
the inheritance tax laws to
encourage the continued use
of farmland for agricultural
purposes. It provides that
farmlands and forestlands
be taxed at use value rather
than the market value for
inheritance purposes, thus
making it easier for farmers
to pass their family farms
from one generation to the
next without prohibitive
Sales Services, American
Agricultural Marketing
Association, American
Farm Bureau Federation.
At the core of current
attention apparently is an
attempt by tlx Farm Bureau
group to sign up. Penn
sylvania into its expanding
national marketing program
for spent hens.
Jim Wolf, Egg Council
president, told members
following the often cryptic
PACMA and Farm Bureau
presentations that he per
sonally had been approached
to enroll his operation at
Stewartstown into the
national program.
Other topics covered at the
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several repeat per
formances were recorded
for the top herd average in
the Red Rose Association.
Top Ayrshire Ksrd is
owned by Harold Shelly, R 2
Manheim. His herd of 23
cows produced an average of
15,318 pounds milk and 621
pounds butterfat.
Leading the Brown Swiss
records was the herd of
Richard G. Wenger, R 2
Manheim. His 77 cow herd
averaged 13,300 pounds milk
and 546 pounds butterfat.
In this Issue
SECTION A: Editorials, 10; Berks calf sale, 22; Perry
herd tops 800 fat, 24; Adams DHIA meeting, 26; Penn
Agnho! co-op, 27; Clean and Green tax strings, 30;
Wilbur Houser talks testing, 32.
SECTION B; Top Lancaster dairy herd, 2; Adams
barn fire, 5; Deer harvest up, 6; Silage meeting, 7;
Agronomy research, 8.
SECTION C; Homestead notes, 2; Home on the range,
6; Joyce Bupp, 12; Berks DHIA meeting, IS; Cum
berland DMA, 17; Schuylkill DHIA, 20; North American
show, 24; Save hogs from TGE, 28; Poultry outlook, 30.
SECTION D: Bradford DHIA, 2; Mechanical broiler
harvest, 10; Estate planning, 16; 1981 gram program, 18;
Winery wins 11 medals, 20; Charolais show, 21.
$7.50 Per Year
inheritance tax.
“In Pennsylvania, the
pressures of urban sprawl,
inflation, and taxation have
been pushing families off the
farm,” Thornburgh said.
“To reverse this trend, we
have enacted a number of
farm preservation
initiatives.
“Members of family farm
operations are often forced
to sell their land for
development because they
cannot afford to pay the
inheritance tax,” Thorn
burgh said earlier in the
week. “By valuing property
for tax purposes at its far
ming use instead of its
usually higher market value,
we are making it more
feasible financially to
continue these family farm
operations.”
To be eligible under this
legislation, land must have
been in agricultural use for
three years before the
owner’s death and remain
that way for seven years
afterward. And, according to
the Department of
Agriculture, the farmland
must be at least ten acres m
size or have a yearly an
ticipated gross income of
$2OOO from farming
Forestlands must be at least
ten continuous acres in size.
Also participating in the
ceremonies were Secretary
of Agriculture Penrose
Hallowell, State
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K.D. and Else Linde, R 1
Oxford, again had the top
Guernsey herd in the
County. A record of 13,566
pounds milk and 652 pounds
fat put their herd of 66 cows
at the top of the Golden
Guernsey DHIA list.
Paul H. and Marvin Herr,
R 1 Holtwood, turned in the
best production figures for
Jerseys. Their 45 cow herd
produced 12,453 pounds milk
and 597 pounds fat.
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